Germany, California, faster than wecan investigate.
CHACE:
$17 million brings out a crowd.
GAIL:
You're telling me you have nothing.
DEL ROVERE:
No, Signora, we have too much. Too many kidnappers, too many reporters.
A victim worth too much money.
CHACE:
Want some free advice? Put it in the papers.
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CHACE (CONT'D) When the kidnappers find out everylowlife in Rome is trying to poachtheir ransom they'll have to comeout into the open to claim it.
DEL ROVERE:
It's the communists, the Rosso Brigate. To kidnap the child of therichest capitalist in the world -this would be a dream for them.
They will take you too, Signora, ifthey can. So I am placing you underpolice protection.
GAIL:
I don't need anyone's protection.
I'm not a real Getty. I never was.
I'm an ordinary person.
DEL ROVERE:
You're not a person anymore. You're a symbol. My officers will escortyou home. Buona sera.
EXT. POLICE CAR/ROME STREETS -- NIGHT Gail and Chace ride in back as the police car blazes throughthe streets. Plastered along the walls are blowups of thecover of La Stampa with Paul Getty's photograph on it.
A MOTORBIKE pulls up alongside Gail's window. The rider reaches into his bag and we see the glint of black metal -
CHACE:
Jesus, shake them off. Swerve! And a FLASHBULB FIRES. The Paparazzo shoves his camera backinto his bag and speeds away. Gail never flinched.
CHACE (CONT'D) Hey! Didn't you see that?
POLICE DRIVER:
It's a free country.
Gail looks over at the flustered Chace.
GAIL:
It's kind of you to make a fuss, Mr.
Chace, but you really needn't bother.
43.
INT. GAIL'S APARTMENT -- NIGHT In the kitchen, two SURVEILLANCE OFFICERS of the Policia di Stato are setting up a large reel-to-reel tape recorder onthe table and connecting it to the telephone.
GAIL:
Is there anywhere you can put thatso that we have a place to eat?